UNITED
NATIONS,
January 26, updated --
A large
quantity of
cocaine was
found upon
entry into the
United Nations
compound, "via
the UN
diplomatic
pouch," a well
placed UN
source
exclusively
told Inner
City Press.
[See update
below.]

Inquiries
with both
member states
and security
officials
confirm the
find of "forty
pounds of pure
cocaine...
through the
scanner" --
the scanner
which security
sources say is
located in the
UN's still
open third sub
basement.

Whistleblowing
sources
complain that
while
international
drug
trafficking is
(at least) a
Federal crime,
only the NY
Police
Department was
called,
apparently
with little
follow-through
so far. "Why
didn't they
let the pouch
be picked up
and see where
it would
lead?" this
whistleblower
asked Inner
City Press.

After the
"suspicious
package" was
found, select
UN Security
personnel were
convened and
cursorily told
that it had
been turned
over "to the
host country."

Another
source asked,
under Ban,
"what is
ID/OIOS" --
the
Investigations
division of
the Office of
Internal
Oversight
Services, from
which Ban
removed his critic Inga
Britt Ahlenius
- "doing about
drug
trafficking in
the UN?" Watch
this site.

Now,
on the
cocaine, Inner
City Press'
whistleblowing
sources want
to know: where
has the
evidence gone,
and where is
the follow up,
in Ban
Ki-moon's
purportedly
reformed or
reforming UN?

Update:
after
publishing the
story above,
Inner City
Press went to
the January 26
UN noon
briefing and
put a series
of questions
to Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin
Nesirky.
Nesirky
confirmed the
find and that
local
authorities
were called;
he said it was
"not connected
with the UN."
(His answer
was picked
up.)

But
if it was
inside the UN,
how is it not
connected to
the UN?

Inner City
Press has
gotten off the
cuff, and
requested
formal,
comment from
the US Mission
to the UN -
watch this
site.